An illustration of what I was talking about this morning didn’t fail to appear. A Liberal blogger wrote an extremely mildly worded post that questioned whether the concept of trigger warnings was necessarily entirely always completely useful and asking students maybe, possibly, if they would be so kind as to consider maybe possibly doing the kindness of accepting that professors don’t always object to administration – mandated trigger warnings because of being horrible evildoers. Maybe. Possibly. Or not.
The post sounded even more tentative and apologetic than my retelling. Still, it departed by a hair’s breadth from the dogma that trigger warnings are good. As a result, the post’s author got terrified of his own enormous daring and deleted the post.
This kind of thing happens all the time. The moment Bernie Sanders began his campaign, the very Liberals whose interests he was trying to promote descended on him like a flock of angry crows for not using the exact PC terminology of today back in the blethering 1970s. This is not even about censoring ideas. It’s complete intolerance for anything that departs from rigid formulations that have to be reproduced photographically. And of course, the politicians who try to appeal to this audience sound like broken records.
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